Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry (a list thread)

nb: I lied on the yes or no question, figuring it is more important to obey the spirit than the letter of that particular law.

I just applied for a job with online fields for everything in my resume, accompanied by the caveat "DO NOT COPY AND PASTE TEXT INTO THIS FIELD. YOUR INFORMATION WILL NOT BE RECEIVED IF YOU COPY AND PASTE TEXT." So I had to retype my resume and personal info.

wut

that is just a lie

>:(

rationally angry here

Yeah I've never seen any input fields coded to determine how the text got in. Jerks!

the fuck?!? that's one of the craziest things I've heard!
I got an interview from one of those stupid web form applications so I'm not too annoyed at them but I was so nervous that it wouldn't submit all my info correctly because of my current volunteering job making me put 'no' to 'are you currently employed' but writing about it in that field anyway.

Maybe they put the "no c&p" warning cos ppl were pasting from Word - this would be likely to introduce funky errors and weirdass characters into the form, which *would* possibly break the submission. Surely pasting from some basic plain txt thing would be fine though.

bloody proprietary usb cables - can't charge my mp3 player at work because the cable is at home and the other *three* usb cables i have with me are all different. wouldn't've bought it if i'd've known but you couldn't tell from the pictures.

yesterday went to buy paper. shopkeeper was on the phone the whole time. rang up my stuff, £2.80. gave me £2.10 change. would've complained but he was on the phone so just walked out. i hope he enjoys the last money i ever spend in his shop.

and today the bloke in tesco had trouble working out the change despite it being right there on the terminal in front of him. £17.16. gives me a tenner, a fiver, *three* pound coins and 11p. i point out his mistake and he takes all the pound coins off me and stands there scratching his head. eventually calls his boss. (he's usually fine. so i'll put this down to the early monday morning)

This is for all you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVbhOZjSuic

Actually yeah, people with working cash registers who try to do the change in their head when hey, you've paid a lot for that beep machine that can do the same thing. Particularly since I'm frequently "helpful" in giving say 5.23 when the goods cost 4.73, and they look at me like I'm trying to molest their children and I want to say "Look! Ask the machine! The machine understands I'm being helpful!"

In the nearest supermarket to my previous home there was one guy who would always very slowly count out the 27p in small change to bring it up to 5.00, and then slowly count out the remaining 23p and give you the resulting two piles of coins, all the while giving you the evil eye

this guy was a grumpy and unhelpful sod in many other respects and I would deliberately avoid his queue if more than one line was open

people who pronounce "library" as "lie-berry" even though they actually work in a library.

the berry is a lie

One of the lie-berrians in my high school said "lie-berry."

Y'all should live in a town with a presidential library. Oh, how hilarious hearing about the CLINTON LIE-BERRY gets the 100th or2000th time.

Because, you see, CLINTON LIED.

Now, this is how dumb I am: I still don't understand what counting the change back up to the original bill given is supposed to prove.

I buy something for $5.76. I give the cashier a ten. She gives me 24¢ and says "six" then counts out four bills, going seven, eight, nine, ten.

I know there is a rhyme and reason to it. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it or that it doesn't serve a purpose. But I already know I gave her a ten. That's in the past now. I'd feel better about her counting out the correct amount of change rather than counting to what I gave her in the first place.

Again, she's doing her job and I'm an idiot for not being able to count forwards and backwards at the same time. But there comes times like this weekend where I broke a hundred at Walgreens and the cashier counted out $94 to me and ended by saying "one-hundred", and I just stood there, possibly drooling, nodding my head and saying "if you say so" and "thank you."

lol I hope you were drooling.

Have you noticed that Walgreens cashiers say "Be well"? I thought it was just at the one by my house, but it's happening all over the city, so it's clearly a corporate thing.

They haven't said that to me, but they do apologize profusely when they have to run my driver's license through the CIA so I can buy Alavert.

Oh yeah, ppl breaking hundreds by buying 6 dollars worth of stuff. I remember really loving that when I worked retail...

I always apologize or ask if I can break a hundred usually! I feel like that's a burden a lot of places. No problem using my debit card.

I did ask first, fwiw.

Damn Walmart didn't ask me when I got the cash back. I didn't even know Walmart had $100 bills.

These two college aged girls in the line in front of my at the coffee shop this morning who were using "having a crush on" to describe anything they like. Just in the few minutes I was within earshot, one said "have you tried the mocha here? i have such a crush on it" and the other, "do you watch Glee? I feel gross but I have a mini-crush on that show". Can't you just say you like something?

that sounds like the kind of catchphrase crap I hear on a tv show, assume is made up, and then hear actual kids use later to my dismay and advanced age

Well, but they just like it, they don't like-like it.

Argh. That's almost OK w/ me. Like, if I had thought it up, I'd think it was OK to say in instances of *EXTREME* love of something or when trying to be funny, but not as an everyday way of saying you love something.

(Any subject) + porn.

Instagram full of classic guitars? GUITAR PORN.

Also see FOOD PORN, GUN PORN, CAR PORN and SHOE PORN.

The woman behind the counter at Starbucks the other day told me to "have a blessed day" and it made me i.a. Keep it in church.

Damn, Phil. You must really get i.a. when you sneeze.

That I tend to ignore, because it's like a reflex thing for most people.

But yes, I'm the asshole who gets angry at *being blessed.* Haha I really am a terrible human being.

(shoots self)

I don't want to be told to have a fucking blessed day!

hah bless all you grouches

I try to avoid "bless you" in favor of "gesundheit" (no way! spelled it right first try!!) or "salud." Though sometimes I do say "May Christ bless you and hold you in His tender mercies, now and forevermore, amen," or something similar.

A bus driver on one of my regular routes is really big on blessing everybody and wishing is all a blessed day. Normally I'm just low- to medium-angry at blessed day people but he is a little more forceful about it and it bugs me. Also something about being a captive audience. What does make me IA is that I feel guilty for not saying "You, too!" Don't feel guilty!

Oh man this is like PORN PORN

Dick porn.

There is the train operator who says "This is the blessed train. The blessed train is the best train." and for some reason I'm not upset w/ him.

Gotta say that "bless you" rolls off the tongue a lot easier than Geshundeit (No Guess Found).

My wife is a bit more ambivalent about religion than I am, so forever when she sneezed, I just continued to read my book or whatever. That is, until she complained that I never said "bless you." I asked, what do you care what "a man in the sky" thinks about your sneeze, and her response was still, it was polite to say it.

So now I try to say it after she sneezes. Makes me look bad when I bless the cat's sneeze and not hers.

xp Me, neither! I actually kind of like riding the Blessed Train. I think it's because he rhymes his announcements.

Jeff does not bless sneezers. I do, out of habit and because I fear looking like a jerk. There was a long adjustment period where he would get irked if I blessed him. I still reflexively bless about 5% of his sneezes.

I am one of those Event Sneezers (at least three, often five to seven) so sometimes I feel like Jeff should say something when I'm done, like maybe just ask if I'm okay or if I need anything.

LOL

xp to PP blessing the cat and not the wife

Once or twice I've tried quoting The Exorcist* in response to a sneeze. Results were decent.

*"Let Jesus fuck you!"

I will never say anything in response to a sneeze.

I just want some kind of acknowledgement that I just endured a minor physical trial. Maybe just a "Damn, girl!" Would also accept "Let Jesus fuck you."

Every single time my boss sneezes, she gets pissed off and says "ARGH! I hate sneezing!" and usually apologizes fairly profusely. It's weird!

And then I tell her, "Damn girl, it's OK, let Jesus fuck you!"

How about I say Qapla'

I would much prefer it if when I sneezed people said "The power of Christ compels you!" but no dice.

No lie, I've said to Beeps before while she was pooping.

How about I say Qapla'

I approve.

ARGH. You made me look up a Klingon word.

Don't be such a petaQ.

Go the Seinfeld route and say "You are so good looking"